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Storia di una Monaca di Clausura
Story of a Cloistered Nun
Une Histoire du 17. Siècle / Der Nonnenspiegel / Diary of a Cloistered Nun
Italy/France/West Germany 1973
produced by Tonino Cervi for Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.), SND, Roxy Film
directed by Paolo Dominici (= Domenico Paolella)
starring Catherine Spaak, Suzy Kendall, Eleonora Giorgi, Martine Brochard, Umberto Orsini, Konrad Georg, Ann Odessa, Antonio Falsi, Tino Carraro, Isabelle Marchall, Caterina Boratto, Giuliana Calandra, Clara Colosimo, Rina Franchetti, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Barbara Herrera, Carla Mancini, Paola Senatore
written by Tonino Cervi, Paolo Dominici (= Domenico Paolella), music by Piero Piccioni, conducted by Bruno Nicolai
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Italy, 1632: Because she doesn't want to marry the man her aristocrat
father has promised her to but loves Giuliano, daddy has Carmela (Eleonora
Giorgi) thrown into a convent, where she is undergoing the usual (but not
all that excessive) humiliations to break her will - but she also attracts
the attention and affection of both the Mother Superior (Suzy Kendall) and
sister Elisabetta (Catherine Spaak) - who besides having sexual
relationships with other nuns also knows a secret passage to the outside
where she frequently meets her lover Diego. Finally, Carmela is to be
inducted into the monastery as a full-blown nun, but when she doesn't
accept her vocation, her family turns from her for good, and she has to
stay in the convent after all. But somehow, sister Elisabetta facilitates
it for her to see Giiuliano - but in return she asks for sex, and when
Carmela turns her down, she sees to it that Giuliano is beaten up ... but
her henchmen overdo it and kill the poor chap. This makes Carmela
temporarily lose her mind, and when she is back to her senses, she
realizes she is pregnant. The Mother Superior sees to it that Carmela is
having her baby in all secrecy - but one of the nuns tells everything to
the bishop anyways, and soon the monastery is about to be closed and all
the nuns are to be relocated to other convents - and what will happen to
the boy is left to anybody's guess. However, now all the nuns are
collaborating to make it possible for Carmela to escape with her son ...
Rather
tame nunsploitation flick that is probably a bit too restrained for the
subject matter it is dealing with (after all, this is about lesbian nuns),
on the other hand, unlike many other films of the genre it tries to deal
as seriously as possible with the (allegedly true) story on hand. In the
light of this, one has to admit Story of a Cloistered Nun is a
competently made and sufficiently budgeted period piece ... which lacks
any spark of originality though, and Eleonora Giorgi plays the innocence
incarnate to the point of being annoying and does not really manage to
carry the film.
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